Lifelong Dem Voter Says Streak Will End in Nov After Pelosi Stunt on COVID Relief Bil

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Forcing states to do same-day voter registration and prohibiting them from “imposing additional conditions or requirements on the eligibility of a voter to cast an absentee ballot such as notarization or witness signatures, and prohibits requiring identification to obtain an absentee ballot?” Check, of course.

Do you think the Democrats will suffer for the COVID-19 relief stunt?
97% (8333 Votes)
3% (263 Votes)

It’s not like we didn’t know what this was all about.

Democratic House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina reportedly summarized it quite nicely: “This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision,” he told members of the House Democratic caucus on a conference call, according to reports.

I remember throwing together 20-page papers on a long weekend back in college.

I can imagine that Democrats can throw together something longer if they have a bunch of them on it.

I refuse to believe, however, that they created a 1,000-plus page document out of thin air over the course of a weekend.

This feels like a bunch of parts that were sitting around on the Democrats’ shelf.

Much like General Motors engineers back in the 1980s trying to build yet another cookie-cutter car, they took them down, bolted them together and lo and behold, this was their response to the coronavirus.

That’s not what this was supposed to be. That’s not what any of this was supposed to be about.

Yes, Borysenko had decided before this that she’d just about had it with the Democratic Party. In her Medium piece back in February, she talked about how Democrats didn’t understand what was coming their way.

“I think the Democrats have an a—kicking coming to them in November, and I think most of them will be utterly shocked when it happens, because they’re existing in an echo chamber that is not reflective of the broader reality,” she wrote.

“I hope it’s a wake-up call that causes them to take a long look in the mirror and really ask themselves how they got here. Maybe then they’ll start listening. I tend to doubt it, but I can hope.”

I’m going to take a wild guess here, but I don’t think this bill counted as listening to Borysenko.

Forcing states to do same-day voter registration and prohibiting them from “imposing additional conditions or requirements on the eligibility of a voter to cast an absentee ballot such as notarization or witness signatures, and prohibits requiring identification to obtain an absentee ballot?” Check, of course.

Do you think the Democrats will suffer for the COVID-19 relief stunt?
97% (8333 Votes)
3% (263 Votes)

It’s not like we didn’t know what this was all about.

Democratic House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina reportedly summarized it quite nicely: “This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision,” he told members of the House Democratic caucus on a conference call, according to reports.

I remember throwing together 20-page papers on a long weekend back in college.

I can imagine that Democrats can throw together something longer if they have a bunch of them on it.

I refuse to believe, however, that they created a 1,000-plus page document out of thin air over the course of a weekend.

This feels like a bunch of parts that were sitting around on the Democrats’ shelf.

Much like General Motors engineers back in the 1980s trying to build yet another cookie-cutter car, they took them down, bolted them together and lo and behold, this was their response to the coronavirus.

That’s not what this was supposed to be. That’s not what any of this was supposed to be about.

Yes, Borysenko had decided before this that she’d just about had it with the Democratic Party. In her Medium piece back in February, she talked about how Democrats didn’t understand what was coming their way.

“I think the Democrats have an a—kicking coming to them in November, and I think most of them will be utterly shocked when it happens, because they’re existing in an echo chamber that is not reflective of the broader reality,” she wrote.

“I hope it’s a wake-up call that causes them to take a long look in the mirror and really ask themselves how they got here. Maybe then they’ll start listening. I tend to doubt it, but I can hope.”

I’m going to take a wild guess here, but I don’t think this bill counted as listening to Borysenko.